Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a wild first-inning pitch by Yankee Art Ditmar barely missed the plastic capped head of White Sox Outfielder Larry Doby, protocol demanded a few angry words. Doby obliged. Ditmar answered in kind. Doby countered with a left hook somewhat more accurate than Ditmar's fast ball, and Ditmar dropped. Men from both sides piled in. Even with the Chicago cops to help them, the umpires took 28 minutes to put down the fight. By then, Yankees Enos Slaughter and Billy Martin had been ordered off the field, along with Chicago's First Baseman Walt Dropo...
That being very much the case, a good many U.S. citizens will probably go right along with the point made by Sidney Hook, chairman of philosophy at New York University, in his recently published Common Sense and the Fifth Amendment (TIME, May 27): "Anybody may keep out of jail by invoking the privilege against selfincrimination. But there are many posts in which we may legitimately require standards of conduct higher than those sufficient to keep out of a jail...
...That Got Away. In Jupiter Cove, Fla., when Fisherman Joe Bal made a mighty cast, his hook, sinker and 150 yards of line disappeared with a tremendous roar-snagged on a twin-engine seaplane, which came over at about...
...witness of the Fifth Amendment, Hook persuasively demonstrates, demands a "legitimate presumption," although not conclusive, of his guilt. Hook shows that the reverse attitude, if carried to the logical extreme of its illogic. would make nonsense of law enforcement and justice. To refute Griswold's hypothetical cases of innocent men invoking the Fifth, Hook offers some cases of his own. including that of the man who goes fishing with a companion: a cry and a splash are heard: a drowned body is found. What would anyone think, asks Hook, if the fisherman refuses to reply to questions with...
...last word for all except the sentimentally prejudiced. At a time when many TV-conditioned minds are nudged towards the "forum" rather than real debate, this argumentative work is a relief. In a wide cast for the high-flying fish of fallacy, Dean Griswold & Co. are firmly caught on Hook's hook...